Pocket-containing headgear



June 9, 1953 K. HASSLER 2,640,992

' POCKET-CONTAINING HEADGEAR 4 Filed May 16, 1951 19 l4 INVENTOR.

- Kenneth Hassler ATTORNEY.

Patented June 9, i953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE POCKET-CONTAINING HEADGEAR Kenneth Hassler, Bronx, N. Y.

. Application May 16, 1951, Serial No. 226,604

. 4 Claims. 1

This invention relates to headgears and more particularly to caps having a protruding brim or visor.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a pocket visor or receptacle in the brim of a headgear adapted to receive small objects, such as a cigarette package, keys, money and the like.

Bathers and sportsmen, by way of illustration, often have need for ready access to cisarettes. money, fish hooks and the like and Y because of the customary garb, for example, a bathing suit. they have no means for keeping such objects about their person. The provision of a pocket in the cap or other headgear of said bathers. sportsmen and others provides a means for keeping small objects readily available.

This invention is illustrated by means of a cap in the following drawing. which forms a part of the specification, and in which;

Fig. 1 is a top view showing a head-band, crown strap and a pocket visor,

Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken along line 2-2 of Fig. 1 through a visor prepared from sectional pieces,

Fig. 2a is a cross-section taken along line 22 of Fig. 1 of a single piece molded visor having a pocket therein, and,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view broken away in part and taken along line 3--3 of Fig. 1, showing the head-band used to close the pocket opening,

Fig. 4 is a view showing the juncture of a headband with a pocket visor consisting of a. front spacer, a top visor shield. a bottom visor shield, and a sweatband, and additionally showing the juncture of thecrown strap with the headband.

Turning now to the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, a cap having a head-band i0 and crown strap H is provided with a visor l 2 having a crescent-shaped upper or top visor shield IS, a crescent-shaped lower or bottom visor shield l4 identical in size to said upper shield, and a front spacer l5 joining the front edges of said crescent-shaped shields. thereby forming a chamber or pocket Hi adapted to receive objects of relatively small dimensions.

As will be seen in Fig. 2a the visor having a pocket therein may be molded from plastic as a unit and thereafter attached to headband in by conventional means, such as, threads, rivets, or other conventional securing means.

Turning to Fig. 2, upper visor shield 13 as well as lower visor shield it made. for example, from plastic sheeting, are sewn to the front spacer I5, preferably with the aid of a cloth tape l1, although stitching without the aid of cloth tape H 2 will firmly unite these sections and therefore is operable.

The rear edges or peripheries of the upper visor shield l3 and of the lower visor shield ll. Fig. 3, are disposed adjacent the wearer's forehead and may be provided with an outwardly protruding rim it, one of said rims being used for attaching a longitudinal edge of the sweatband 18 thereto and the other rim being used as an abutment for the other longitudinal edge of the unattached portion of the sweatband l8. The rims [9, are located at the rear edges of the said upper or top and said lower or bottom shields, which shields are preferably crescentshaped, and said rims I9 are extended upwardly from the rear edge of the upper or top visor shield and are extended downwardly from the rear edge of the lower or bottom visor shield. These rims l9 are secured to a sweatband, preferably of leather, by threads or stitches, or other conventional means.

The headgear is provided with headband l0, preferably of elastic textile material, and also with a crown strap H, which may be a curvatured plastic strip adapted to rest on the dome of a wearer's head. The preferably crescentshaped upper and lower visor shields are disposed over one another and are spaced-apart at their front edges by the front-spacer 15, the angles of the upper crescent-shaped visor shield are disposed directly above the corresponding angles of the lower crescent-shaped visor shield, the apex of the angles being disposed over one of the two vertical edges of the front spacer, thereby forming a right pocket visor extremity and a left pocket visor extremity said extremities adapted to be disposed adjacent the respective right or left temple of a wearer's head. Their extremities are secured or attached to a headband (0, along the vertical edges of the front spacer since the headband I0, is of substantially the same width as that of the front spacer [5. This securing of the headband to the extremities of the pocket visor at the vertical edges of the front spacer is preferably done by conventional stitching or other conventional means. In fact all the separate parts of the headgear are secured together preferably by conventional stitching, or other conventional means such as rivets, and the like. The vertical edges of the headband [0, are thus stitched to the vertical edges of the front spacer 15, as shown in "Fig. 4. It is to be understood however, that a cap having a pocket visor devoid of said rims and said sweatband is operable and within the scope of this invention.

Turning to Fig. 3, the opening or aperture of the visor [2, adapted to lie adjacent the forehead. is preferably covered with a sweatband l8 secured to rim [9 of the bottom visor shield, though headgears having uncovered apertures are onerable.

Headband Hi my be made of conventional elastic material or may have conventional adj ustable means whereby it becomes adaptable to different head sizes.

This invention is illustrated by means of a cap, but obviously it is adaptable to any headgear hav ing a firm brim and therefore the scope of this invention embraces all headgears having a pocket in their brim.

I claim:

1. A headgear having a headband having a front portion and a rear portion and a pocket visor secured to the front portion of the headband and adapted to lie adjacent the forehead, said pocket visor comprising an upper visor shield, a lower visor shield, both of said shields having curvatured front edges, and a front spacer connecting said front edges of said shields by conventional means and in spaced relationship.

2. A headgear comprising a headband attached to a pocket visor, said pocket visor consisting of an upper visor shield, having a front edge, a bottom visor shield having a front edge and disposed beneath said upper visor shield, a front spacer secured to said front edge of both the upper visor shield and the bottom visor shield.

3. The headgear of claim 2 wherein the said pocket visor consisting of an upper visor shield, a lower visor shield, and a front spacer, is an integral molded unit.

4. A headgear comprising a headband, a crown strap, and a pocket visor adapted to hold a P rality of objects, said pocket visor having a top arcuate visor shield, a bottom arcuate visor shield disposed beneath said top visor shield, a front spacer connecting said visor shields along their front edges or peripheries, said connected visor shields and front spacer being secured to said headband by stitching each of the vertical edges of the front spacer to each of the respective vertical edges of the headband and a flexible sweatband secured to one of said visor shields along its inner edge and adapted to lie adjacent the forehead of a wearer, to cover the aperture or opening between the top and bottom visor shields, said crown strap being connected to said headband at points adjacent to those locations where the extremities of said pocket visor are secured to said headband.

KENNETH HASSLER.

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